Support for buckets.



No. 669,533. Patented Mar. I2, mm;

J. LOWE. SUPPORT Fun Buckets.

(Lppliclhon filed July 80, 1900) (un -maul.)

IN VENTOH Jaim Z 0W6.

A Tram/ rs JOHN LOWE, OF ARLINGTON, KANSAS.

SUPPORT FOR BUCKETS.

SPEGIFICATZON forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,533, dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed July 20, 1900. Serial No. 24,304. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN LOWE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Arlington,

'in the county of Reno and State of Kansas,

have invented a new and Improved Support for Buckets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

One purpose of the invention is to provide a bucket, especiallya bucket used in milking, with devices whereby the bucket may be supported from the limbs of the user at a pointnear the knees, and thus held close to the udders of a cow being milked, leaving both hands of the milker free and enabling the milker to move readily while supporting the bucket.

Another purpose of the invention is to so construct and apply the supporting devices that when not needed they may be carried close to the sides of the bucket and held in such position.

A further object of the invention is to so form the ears of the pail or bucket that they will pivot the supports and provide means for locking them either in a closed or open position.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of a pail or bucket having the improvements applied, the supports being in an outer position or in a position to be placed in engagement with the limbs of the milker. Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation of a bucket and a support applied thereto, the support being shown as folded and held close to the side of the bucket; and Fig. 3 is a partial side elevation of a bucket and a sectional view through the bearings formed in one of the ears, the support pivoted in said bearings being in transverse section and in the position shown in Fig. 1.

Arepresents a pail-a milk-pail, for example. B represents the ears of said pail, and C the bail, pivoted to the upper extensions of the ears. The cars B are of the ordinary form,

except that in each ear the material thereof is offset in an outward direction, forming a diagonal groove or channel 10, and at the upper portion of this groove or channel the material of the ear is offset outwardly, so that the upper portion of the ear just above the upper portion of the channel 10 is carried away from the body of the bucket and the bottom portion 12 of the upper offset 11 is at an angle, almost a right angle, to the diagonal offset groove or channel 10.

At the bottom portion of the groove or channel 10 in an ear [5 an outward offset 13 is produced at the opposite side of the groove or channel to the upper offset 11, and while the upper offset 11 is open at its side and top the lower offset 13 is open at its bottom only, which is the lower portion of the car, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3. The lower offset 13 is also at an angle to the diagonal offset groove or channel 10.

In connection with each ear and the offsets above described a supporting'arm D is em ployed. The supporting-arm is preferably made of wire in two strands or members 1% and 15. The strand or member 14 of the wire is carried through the diagonal groove of channel 10 of the ear B, to which the support belongs, and is then carried at a right angle outward at the upper offset 11 in such manner that this strand or member may engage with the bottom wall 12 of the said upper offset. This strand 14 is then bowed in a downward direction, and the strand 15, which is formed by bending the wire upon itself, is coiled at 16 around the strand 14 to a point near the ear B, in which the arm is pivoted, as aforesaid. The strand is carried downward from the strand 14 outside of the ear B to a point below the ear and is then bent upon itself to form a horizontal shoulder 17, and the end of the strand 15 is then taken up into the diagonal grooved channel or hearing 10. Thus it will be observed under this construction that the supports have vertical movement in their bearings formed in the ears, and when a support D is carried upward until the shoulder 17 strikes the bottom of the car at the offset 13 the upper strand or member 14 of the support will be above the upper offset 11 and the support may then be turned and carried practically at a right angle to the pail or bucket, and, further, that when the support is placed in this latter position the shoulder 17 will be in line with the lower offset 13 and the support may then be carried farther upward, bringing the said shoulder into the space formed by the said offset 13,

as'shown in Fig. 3, locking the support in its outer position. When the two supports D are placed in this position, the pail or bucket may be placed in the lap of the milker or between the limbs and the supports made to engage the limbs at a point near the knees, thus leaving both hands of the milker free and enabling the milker to move to-and from the animal being milked to a certain degree, should occasion require, without releasing the bucket.

When the bucket or pail is not in use or after the milking has been finished, the supports I) are carried downward, so as to take the shoulders 17 from the spaces in the offsets 13, and the supports are then carried to an engagement with the sides of the bucket or pail and are pressed downward, bringing the upper strands or members 14 of the supports within the space provided by the upper offsets 11 and in engagement with the bottom Walls 12 of such offsets, as shown in Fig. 2, and when the supports are in this position it is evident that they will be held close to the body of the bucket and out of the way and that the bucket may be used for any purpose for which such-an article is required.

It is obvious that a bucket or pail having such an attachment applied may be advantageously used in picking fruit, as the supports may be made to engage with conven-.

ient branches.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A pail having an ear which is provided with a diagonal bearing, said bearing having oppositely-disposed extensions at its ends, one open at the top and side and the other at the bottom, and a support adapted to said bearing in the ear, the said support having vertical and rotary movementin the bearing, being also provided with members arranged for locking engagement with one or the other of the end extensions of the bearing.

2. The combination, with a pail and an ear secured thereto, the ear being provided with adiagonal bearing havingoppositely-disposed end extensions, the bearing and its extensions being offset from the ear and the upper extension being open at its side and top while the lower extension is open at its bottom portion only, of a hook-like support, a member of which is held to turn and slide in the diagonal portion of the said bearing, the upper portion of the hook support adjacent to the diagonal portion of the bearing being capable of movement in the upper extension of the bearing and of engagement with its bottom wall, the lower portion of the said hook extension adjacent to the car being provided with a shoulder, adapted in one position of the support to enter the lower extension of the bearing and effect a locking engagement between the ear and the support, whereby the said support may be moved to a position at an angle to a side of the pail, or to an engagement with the side thereof and locked in either position, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN LOWE. Witnesses:

M. L. BARRETT, A. B. ORABBs. 

